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AER to build $8m wind, solar farm in Mid‑West for GMA Garnet

The West Australian by Stuart McKinnon

Friday, 30 June 2017

The project, which includes a battery storage component, will supply almost 70 per cent of the mine’s electricity requirements, allowing GMA Garnet to reduce its carbon footprint by about 5000 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year.

The project will generate enough electricity to power 1700 Australian homes each year. The project’s wind turbines have already arrived in Perth and project approvals are underway, with commissioning expected early in 2019.

AER to build solar, wind farm for GMA Garnet

Business News

Perth-based Advanced Energy Resources has won an $8 million contract to build and operate a three megawatt wind and solar farm to power GMA Garnet Group’s Port Gregory mine near Kalbarri.

AER is a subsidiary of Castelli Group, which was established by United Engineering co-founder Sam Castelli. It will build, own and operate the wind and solar farm, which will supply an initial 70 per cent of the garnet mine’s electricity needs. The renewable energy project, which will incorporate battery storage technology, is expected to be commissioned early in 2019. The project was announced at the Energy and Mines Australia Summit in Perth this morning.

WA garnet miner to build 3MW solar, wind, battery storage plant

reneweconomy.com.au by Sophie Vorrath

Friday, 30 June 2017

A garnet mining company in Western Australia has become the nation’s latest big energy user to turn to renewables, for a cheaper and more reliable supply of industrial energy.

The Australian arm of the world’s largest industrial garnet producer, GMA Garnet, has signed a long-term power purchase agreement with WA-based Advanced Energy Resources for the output of a 3MW wind and solar farm with battery storage, to be built south of Kalbarri, Western Australia.

The deal – announced at the Global Renewables in Mining Summit in Perth on Friday – will see AER build, own and operate the $8 million project, which will also be the first grid connected wind and solar farm with battery storage in the state.